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...integrity, Edward Albee has consistently infused his work with an unsparing timeless fury, an articulate anger that refuses to eschew the audience. The free-flowing profanities in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? no longer shock as in the sixties but engage attention and accent the sardonic humor strung across two of the play's three grueling acts...
...last man to take a shot at Crimson roundball before Tom Sanders came to the IAB was Robert W. Harrison. Harrison strung together three just-barely winning seasons during his five-year stay in Cambridge, but was fired in the spring of 1973 in a move that Athletic Director Robert Watson described as "in the best long-range interests of the program...
...because they put almost anything they pick up into their mouths. Next are the three-to-five-year-olds who, he says, "like to 'have a party' and serve just about whatever looks edible." Favorites, he says, are the pretty but poisonous castor beans, which are often strung into necklaces. "Do you know how easy it is for a child to pull one of the beans off and pop it into his mouth...
Judging from the playbill, Aromarama is a pastiche of slides and sound satirizing box-office biggies from The Guns of Navarone to The Godfather, strung together by skits parodying disaster films. But the idea of L.A. smothered by 2000 feet of waste just doesn't make it, nor does the last-ditch seduction scene of a photographer on the eve of the city's destruction: "Please photograph me. I mean, I know we're not going to have time to develop...
Andrew Tobias, too, sees his present success in just being able to relax a bit. Not long ago he was "a very ambitious, aggressive, high-strung Harvard graduate," a former president of Harvard Student Agencies and a co-founder of a company that was expanding like a supernova. Before Tobias could blink, he had $400,000 worth of stock options. And when the bubble inevitably burst, reducing his paper holdings to nothing, he was standing back, watching the whole thing from a healthy distance, slightly cynical and slightly wise. Naturally, he wrote a book about...